intensive two-week program designed to enhance the knowledge and skills of K-12 teachers of critical languages. Participants will learn how to implement a standards based, thematically organized curriculum and how to use target language to provide comprehensible input.

This teacher-training institute, funded by a STARTALK grant from the National Foreign Language Center, is an intensive two-week program designed to enhance the knowledge and skills of K-12 teachers of critical languages. Participants will learn how to implement a standards based, thematically organized curriculum and how to use target language to provide comprehensible input. The program includes a student teaching component whereby participants will have the opportunity to take the theory learned and put it to practice in a classroom setting. The program will also provide an opportunity for practicing New York teachers to receive professional development credit. Taught by nationally recognized instructors of world language teaching this is a unique opportunity for participants to advance their practice.